Ginny Casey

We always go into open studio events with high hopes, though the experience itself is not always a picnic. You’re going to do some digging to find those gems. To help you get through this, we made you a list of picks based on photos we saw on the Internet. You’re welcome.

We spent all week posting artist interviews, and now we’re putting them together to make one handy recommendation list. There are 500 open studios to view this weekend, not to mention all the event spaces. Don’t go in blind. If you want to preserve your sanity, use this list and refer to our map. It will make your life easier.

There are customary systems for composing an image which become clear after a long day of trolling artists’ websites— central shapes, which fit comfortably inside the edges of the picture plane, and room for the eye to move back in space. Ginny Casey’s paintings defy that mold, producing the same clunky, sentimental quality that Susan Rothenberg and Phillip Guston do so well. It’s a quality that only happens in painting.